Every so often I come across this “Fact” about people eating at least eight spiders a year on average, and people will recite it without thinking.
I imagine a scientist in a white lab coat, standing beside a persons bed, clipboard ready, watching someone as they sleep, every night for a whole year.
“Oops, there goes another one” *writes it down*
It is of course more likely that you will eat bits of insects which have been milled into bread or your cereal… or parts of bees which are often found in honey which has been taken directly from the hive.
And yes I have woken up with a strand of web across my face now and then.
But seriously, who came up with “eight spiders a year”?
Bullshit.
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